Talk With Your Kids: Conversations About Ethics – Honesty, Friendship, Sensitivity, Fairness, Dedication, Individuality – and 103 Other Things That Really Matter

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Michael Parker
Talk With Your Kids: Conversations About Ethics – Honesty, Friendship, Sensitivity, Fairness, Dedication, Individuality – and 103 Other Things That Really Matter

A guide for parents to help their children better understand the world around them by helping them think through the questions they face regarding honesty, friendship, sensitivity, fairness, dedication, individuality and 103 other character-building issues

Many families and almost all schools spend a great deal of time developing children academically, but studies show tht scholastic achievement is not the only key to future success Developing non-cognitive skills, which children often learn from their parents, is equally relevant

Talk with Your Kids prompts thoughtful and effective discussion between parents and children by posing 109 open-ended questions Many of the questions reflect situations immediately relevant to kids, such as cyber-bullying, cheating in school or in sports, accepting differences, illegal music downloads, what defines lying, and making choices about drugs and sex

Other questions ask kids to consider larger dilemmas, such as medical ethics and medical testing, declaring war, crime and punishment, eating meat, and more Parker also offers suggestions to parents on how to keep the conversations going and encourage kids to think more deeply about an issue Throughout the book are questions based on the theories of famous ethicists and philosophers, including John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean Jacques Rousseau

Best-selling parenting books such as How Children Succeed and Nurtureshock emphasize the importance of strong values in a child The conversations in Talk with Your Kids help parents achieve this goal

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Alex Chediak
Beating the College Debt Trap: Getting a Degree without Going Broke

Beating the College Debt Trap presents students with a better way to do college The radically counter-cultural truth is that students don’t have to be totally dependent on Mom, Dad, or Uncle Sam to get the most out of college Graduation on a solid financial foundation is possible But it will require intentionality, creativity, hard work, and a willingness to delay gratification

Chediak gets into the nitty-gritty of how to pay less for college, get meaningful work during college (while setting yourself up for success after college), pay off any loans quickly, spend less, save more, and stay out of debt for good He also unpacks how to transition from college into career, honor God while achieving financial independence, and use your finances to make a positive, eternally-significant difference in the lives of others

As a young professor with an aptitude for finances and money management, Chediak has become particularly concerned with the financial health of students, especially in light of the ever increasing costs of college In Beating the College Debt Trap he helps do something about this problem He engages, in a friendly manner, the “real world” financial issues that 17-25 year olds face, with clarity, practical help, lots of illustrations, and a little humor, while conveying a distinctly Christian perspective

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Jirí Kraus
Rhetoric in European Culture and Beyond

Rhetoric in European and World Culture traces the position of rhetoric in cultural and educational systems from ancient times to the present Here, Jirí Kraus examines rhetoric’s decline in importance in a period of rationalism and enlightenment, presents the causes of negative connotations of rhetoric, and explains why rhetoric in the twentieth century regained its prestige

Kraus demonstrates that the reputation of rhetoric falls when it is reduced to a refined method for deceiving the public and increases when it is seen as a scientific discipline that is used throughout all of the fields of the humanities In this sense, the author argues, rhetoric strives for universal recognition and the cultivation of rhetorical expression, spoken and written, including not only its production but also reception and interpretation

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Michael Erben
Biography and Education: A Reader (Social Research and Educational Studies Series)

Over recent years biographical studies have gained an increasingly important place in academic study The two are inextricably linked Education uses biography in teaching, and in biography, education features strongly as a formative stage in personal development

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Educational Testing Service, “The Official Guide to the GRE Revised General Test, 2nd Edition

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Sue Briggs
Inclusion: How to do it in Secondary Schools: Meeting SEN in Secondary Classrooms

Written by an experienced teacher, adviser and SEN consultant, this practical book helps secondary teachers with all aspect of teaching children with SEN, including planning, teaching and learning and working with parents and provide invaluable photocopiable resources

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David Rubel
The Bedside Baccalaureate: The Second Semester: A Handy Daily Cerebral Primer to Fill in the Gaps, Refresh Your Knowledge & Impress Yourself & Other Intellectuals

Class is back in session! The Bedside Baccalaureate is the ultimate miscellany series for smarties: it speaks directly to people’s desire for a better education and eagerness for a fun, no-pressure “college-like” experience Every volume lets readers enroll in the courses they wish they had taken years ago—or studied more closely than they did This new collection builds on the knowledge imparted in the first book, with the curriculum ranging from Origins of Human Society and Italian Renaissance Art to Schools of Buddhist Thought and Game Theory To enhance learning, the back matter contains bibliographies with suggestions for further study Filled with color illustrations, The Bedside Baccalaureate: Second Semester is an entertaining package for the up-and-coming intellectual

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